The turn to the nineteenth century saw a growing interest in notions of gender, including androgyny. This interest presents itself in art and literature starting in the late eighteenth century, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre. The novel contains several androgynous characters, such as Mignon. Mignon is also the character with the strongest connection to music sings almost half of the poems in the novel. Several of Goethe’s texts have served as inspiration for composers well into the nineteenth century, including Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann. Both of these composers set poems from Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre in song cycles, Schubert’s Gesänge aus ‘Wilhelm Meister’ D877 (1826) and Schumann’s Lieder und Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister” Op. 98a (1849).[1] Both of these composers take different approaches toward the text in order to present idiosyncratic representations of gender and androgyny by deploying, vocal range, phrasing, cadences, harmonies, chromaticism, and repetition. By expanding upon scholarship from literature on the androgynous nature of Mignon, this thesis not only provides new analyses of little-studied song cycles by Schubert and Schumann, but also expands knowledge about representations of androgyny in nineteenth century music. In the process, it contributes new knowledge LGBTQ+ studies within musicology. [1] Franz Schubert, Gesänge aus ‘Wilhelm Meister in Schubert’s Werke, Serie XX: Sämtliche Lieder und Gesänge, No. 488-491 (Leipzig: Breitfopf & Härtel, 1985). Robert Schumann, Sämtliche Lieder, Band II: Originalausgabe (Hohe Stimme), ed. Max Friedlander (Leipzig: Peters, 1920).

Goethe' s Phenomenology - Abstract The aim of this thesis was to explain the philosophical foundations and horizons of the work of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, with an emphasis on his concept of phenomenon and appearing, in which he is presented as a significant contributor to the reflection of the category of mediation in German late Enlightenment and idealistic discourse. The work showed how Goethe's (including poetic) works show some theoretically based or systematizable aspects which genealogy, reception and applicability in general the author attempts to interpret. He also interprets the philosophemes connected with Goethe's work: he puts Goethe in the contexts of the German and European thinking of the age of the Enlightenment, of its rationalist bases and of its rethinking of the nineteenth- century concepts of thought. The work shows the breadth and complexity of Goethe's spiritual resources and their creative appropriation by him, as well as the far-reaching influence of Goethe on the German philosophy already in his time (Hegel, Schelling, Schopenhauer, etc.). He tries to overcome the stereotypes or shortcomings he finds in several previous interpretations, discussing first the philosophical literature about Goethe. In systematic and historical contexts, he represents Goethe confrontations with the...

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Este trabalho trata da ficção histórica de Goethe em duas fases de sua obra. Em primeiro lugar se ocupa do drama pioneiro do Sturm und Drang, Götz von Berlichingen (1773), para então se voltar às Revolutionsdichtungen conjunto de obras produzidas entre 1791 e 1803, período auge do Classicismo de Weimar, em que o autor emitiu juízos sobre diferentes fases da Revolução Francesa. Ao optar por tal tema, visou-se resgatar Goethe como um importante participante do debate histórico-filosófico que começa com os iluministas e culmina no pensamento político da Restauração. Por esse motivo a pesquisa se iniciou com uma busca dos antecedentes do drama histórico do Sturm und Drang, voltando a Gottsched e Lessing. Geralmente o desenvolvimento da ficção histórica do século XVIII é tomado como passivo em relação aos avanços da filosofia ilustrada, como se uma consciência histórica propriamente moderna houvesse aflorado em certos escritores a partir das leituras que fizeram de novas teorias da época. Contra tal suposição, defendeu-se que há na beletrística alemã da virada do século algumas formulações acerca da relação entre indivíduo e processo histórico que, antes de tudo, desafiaram o progressismo dos iluministas tardios, para os quais o advento da Revolução Francesa marcava o próximo passo no aperfeiçoamento da humanidade. Acompanhar o modo como a história foi tratada nas obras do Sturm und Drang até as do Classicismo de Weimar permite-nos, ademais, constatar a radical atualização da missão da cultura literária, que deveria então lidar com as emergências do presente. A literatura almejada naquele contexto deveria funcionar como uma contracorrente do senso comum e um veículo intelectual autônomo, capaz de erguer-se além das paixões partidárias e posicionar corretivos para as contradições contemporâneas. Tais corretivos traziam o diferencial de serem desvinculados das ciências, religião, cultura política ou sabedoria popular a nova arte deveria, assim, ser tomada como autônoma na medida em que podia cindir radicalmente com a cultura do presente em crise, tornando possível o surgimento de um ideal renovado de humanidade e de vida conjunta que a própria Revolução Francesa não foi capaz de concretizar. Aqui reside o que há de mais polêmico e moderno nas chamadas Revolutionsdichtungen e no Classicismo de Weimar como um todo. / The following research deals with Goethe\'s historical fiction in two distinct phases of his career. First off, it handles with the pioneering Sturm und Drang drama, Götz von Berlichingen (1773), and then with the so-called Revolutionsdichtungen a group of works produced between 1791 and 1803, the heyday of the Weimar Classicism, in which the author made judgments about different aspects of the French Revolution. In choosing such a theme, I expect to highlight the importance of Goethe in the historical-philosophical debate which ranges from the works of Enlightenment intellectuals to the political thinking of the Restauration. Thus, the research sets out with a quest for the predecessors of the historical drama of the Sturm Drang, coming across to figures like Gottsched and Lessing. The development of the historical fiction from the 18th century is commonly taken for granted as somewhat passive towards the advances of the Enlightenment philosophy, as if a properly modern historical consciousness had flourished in certain writers after the readings they made from contemporary theories. Against such a presupposition, I claim that in the German belletristic from the turning of the century one can find interesting formulations about the relation between individual and historical process which, above all, cast doubt on the progressism of late Enlightenment philosophers, to whom the advent of the French Revolution marked the next step toward an evolving mankind. Moreover, following the tracks of how history was portrayed from the Sturm und Drang to the Weimar Classicism allows us to verify a radical reformulation of the mission of literary culture, which thenceforth should respond to the emergencies of the present. The literature of that context should work against the common sense, being thus an autonomous cultural medium able to reach beyond the partisan leanings and offer correctives to contemporary contradictions. Such correctives would have the advantage of being independent of the sciences, religion, political culture or popular wisdom a new art therefore should be called autonomous inasmuch as it could split with the culture of a problematic present, allowing for the emergence of a renewed ideal of humanity and communitary life that the French Revolution itself was incapable of materializing. Therein lies what is most polemical and modern in the so-called Revolutionsdichtungen and in the Weimar Classicism as a whole.

O objetivo deste trabalho é promover um cotejamento entre as idéias estéticas e científicas de Goethe compreendidas entre o período do Sturm und Drang e o primeiro Classicismo (Frühklassik). Através dessa comparação é delineada a importância que a inter-relação entre arte e ciência desempenhou no desenvolvimento dos conceitos goethianos relativos a essas duas áreas de sua produção. / Nature is the starting point of Goethe in relation to science and art He feels united to the spirit of the creator from the moment he is involved with the natural and the perception of the presence of the divine in nature. When Goethe discovered his creative and intellectual capacities, he used them to create new forms and to further understand the world. Nature in its constant process of transformation gives rise to the creation of an art under the sign of metamorphosis, whose laws Goethe presents as Polarity (Polariãt) and Intensification (Steigerung). The art presented by Goethe is not a copy of nature as a simple formal element, but the reflection of the representation of nature\'s own laws. Thus both science and art integrate with each other and, consequently, they become interdependent. The art of Goethe is constructed from the dialogue between the world and the use of its capacity to create elaborating new forms; therefore, respecting the same laws which originate the natural world. This study presents the formation of goethian\'s organic poiesis created by the dialogue between art and science.

Beschreibung einer Reise durch das Elsass verflochten mit Zitaten aus F. Hölderlins Gedicht „Der Rhein“ (1801) und Entdeckung des Friederike-Brion-Grabes in Meißenheim. Peters entzaubert den Friederike-Mythos mit einer empathisch-kritischen Frage, die literarische Überhöhung und Lebenswirklichkeit kontrastiert: „Dem Mädchen aus Sesenheim geschah Leid von dem Halbgott. Leid war der Preis für das Licht der Unsterblichkeit,… War der Preis zu hoch?“

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Universität Göttingen, 1909. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Michigan. / "It is the aim ... of this dissertation to treat of Emerson's critical opinion of Goethe."--Pref. Bibliography: 195-197.

Thesis (Doctoral)--Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 1982.